Letters on the Study and Use of History: On Exile ; the Spirit of Patriotism ; Idea of a Patriot King ; State of Parties in 1714Alexander Murray, 1870 - 280 pages |
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... kind in England , and most of the last in France . The persons I mean are those who read to talk , to shine in conversation , and to impose in company who , having few ideas to vend of their own growth , store their minds with crude un ...
... kind in England , and most of the last in France . The persons I mean are those who read to talk , to shine in conversation , and to impose in company who , having few ideas to vend of their own growth , store their minds with crude un ...
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... kind of igno- rance , nothing more . This creditable kind of ignorance is , in my opinion , the whole benefit which the generality of men , even of the most learned , reap from the study of history ; and yet the study of history seems ...
... kind of igno- rance , nothing more . This creditable kind of ignorance is , in my opinion , the whole benefit which the generality of men , even of the most learned , reap from the study of history ; and yet the study of history seems ...
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... kind . Something has been said already to anticipate this objection ; but since I have heard several persons affirm such propositions with great confidence , a loud laugh , or a silent sneer at the pedants who presumed to think ...
... kind . Something has been said already to anticipate this objection ; but since I have heard several persons affirm such propositions with great confidence , a loud laugh , or a silent sneer at the pedants who presumed to think ...
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... kind of twilight succeeded , from the Ogygian deluge to the Olympic era , and this he called the fabulous age . From this vulgar era when Corabus was crowned victor , and long after the true era when these games were instituted by ...
... kind of twilight succeeded , from the Ogygian deluge to the Olympic era , and this he called the fabulous age . From this vulgar era when Corabus was crowned victor , and long after the true era when these games were instituted by ...
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... kind of martial frenzy by the repre- sentation of a tragedy of Aeschylus , and to have marched under this influence from the theatre to the plains of Marathon . These moment- ary impressions might be managed , for aught I know , in such ...
... kind of martial frenzy by the repre- sentation of a tragedy of Aeschylus , and to have marched under this influence from the theatre to the plains of Marathon . These moment- ary impressions might be managed , for aught I know , in such ...
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